I wanted to share with all of you something so incredible and so new that is coming!
I talk to people every day who tell me that they don’t know how to really use facebook or twitter or all the social media that’s out there. They say that they KNOW its important and that it is really where “things are goin” BUT how can that equate to dollars? or how can it possibly GROW my business when it’s really just people talking about where they went to dinner or that they are tired of this or that.
WELLLLL…..
guess what?
WE HAVE A NEW ANSWER! But you have to take a look at the link below and GET READY FOR THE REVOLUTION THAT ISNT COMING….IT’S HERE!
I was in the mall the other day and was looking in the window of a new HIGH END store and on the video screens behind the registers was a HUGE commercial that said “JOIN US ON FACEBOOK”
TAKE A LOOK AROUND TODAY. I mean really look at how many times you see that cute little twitter bird icon or the FAMOUS F for facebook. its on your receipts, its on commercials on tv, ITS EVERYWHERE MAN!
SO TAKE A PEEK AT THE LINK BELOW AND GUESS WHAT ELSE! 
if you sign up through my link…Im going to give you some bonuses that NO ONE ELSE will offer you.
I was living in my car a few short years ago and if I hadn’t put some of the principles into place that I will share with you…I’D STILL BE THERE…OR WORSE.
You might not be as bad off as I was…But i’m willing to bet you are FRUSTRATED trying to turn the internet and social media into something that can change your life the same way it’s working for what seems like EVERYONE ELSE.
take a peek.
send me some feedback and hold onto your shorts….SOMETHING AMAZING WILL BE HERE TOMORROW, AND I CAN’T WAIT TO SHARE IT WITH YOU.
STOP!!!
By · CommentsHave you ever had a week where you finally get to the end and it was so busy and so full and so…. everything…. that you could hardly remember all the things that happened?
Im sitting in my office on a beautiful saturday afternoon, getting ready to go out for a bit, and my mind started wandering back to the week. Some of you may already be reading and asking yourself…WHY IN THE world are you in your office today!?! Well, maybe we should start there. I am blessed to work from my home, which has it’s own set of challenges but none the less, sometimes on a saturday I find it so efficient to be able to get things done in such peace and quiet and I can work at my own pace just enjoying the “me” time.
So back to the story… I am sitting in my office thinking about the week and I started to remember some of the “not so nice things” that happened this week. I had a few arguments, had some TOUGH decisions to make, had to deal with things I had put off and on and on and on. Im sure you can fill in the blanks with the “stuff” you had to deal with this week. But here is my question: Where are you at NOW? Are you stuck there…or are you excited about what is to come? Are you just as scared as you were at that moment days ago? Or have you put that fear down and moved forward?
But perhaps one of the most wonderful, impacting, motivating, happy (get the point?) moments of the week was when I was doing NOTHING!
HUH?
yup!
I had some of my best thoughts, conversations and insights when I was taking time out to let my brain THINK and PROCESS everything that comes at me throughout the week. I work in MULTIPLE different directions throughout the week and I am forced to change gears sometimes on the fly at the speed of light! It can be so easy in those moments to forget the goal, miss something really important or let the little things get in your way. I have been laughed at by some, but ahh who cares….I carry around a franklin planner. I have for YEARS. I get total joy from buying a new leather binder once a year. Some have said that ” that is just a great big notebook”, and maybe they’re right. And yes…I am still prone to forget things, but its in those moments of chaos during the week that I often stop and write down things I want to think about later, or things I may have promised someone on the fly, or maybe it’s just to make myself a little note reminding me when I am going to take quiet ANGELA time. Sometimes that time doesn’t roll around till 10 or 11 at night, and I can only take a little time to sit outside in the wonderful summer air and relax. Sometimes it comes at 11 at night and I can call a dear friend and take a quick walk.
THE POINT IS THE TIME TO STOP ALWAYS COMES.
HERES THE OTHER POINT… PURSUIT OF YOUR DREAMS IN A BIG WAY (ie: WORKING HARD) WONT KILL YOU.
BUT REMEMBER TO PUT THE TWO TOGETHER IN BALANCE!
I love working in my office when its cool and quiet and the only sounds I hear are the birds outside, the quiet hush of my computer, the tap of my fingers on the keyboard and the sound of satisfaction that at the end of the week I can say WELL DONE, and look forward to what next week has to bring.
I know I have been away for a bit, but I will be back soon! Please leave a comment and let me know what you did that was AMAZING this week… AMAZING TO YOU!!! it could have been adding someone new to your team, or teaching your kids to do something new, or taking 10 minutes out to do something you love…. no matter…SHARE IT!
and i’ll leave you with this:
work hard, play hard and stop often to enjoy the silence!
Angela
Please leave your comments below, I would love to get to know all of you and to hear your comments on the post today, Sharing is Caring, let’s all share our thoughts together.
ShareHolding up a Railroad Arm
By · CommentsDoes that title make any sense? of course it doesn’t!… but it will.
Sorry to all that I have been a little out of pocket for a few days, but its been a busy end of one month and a crazy start to a new month.
OK so back to the railroad arm. I was on a BUSY road here in Sacramento on a busy Friday afternoon, when at a large intersection four railroad crossing arms came down and while there was no train for miles…they wouldn’t go up! So for nearly 20 minutes we were all trapped at various points in this intersection as the traffic backed up for as far as the eye could see! Suddenly a woman who was standing on one of the corners dancing furiously to music only she could hear waving a sign announcing another local business was going under, and a local business man came out and raised the arms so other drivers could pass. I sat and sat and sat and (well you get the drift), until I was acutely aware that I wasn’t going to go anywhere. I pulled my car over, got out and raised one of the arms and held it as high as my scrawny arms would go and flagged people by. I was suddenly aware of another young lady who had done the same and we stood, arms raised high as people drove through.
WHAT IN THE WORLD DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING?
I’M GETTING THERE, DON’T WORRY!
As we stood there I became very aware of the people passing through. Old people, young people, men, women, people who immediately glanced away so as not to acknowledge that they were far too busy to help, people who rolled down their windows to say thanks, and some to say “this is RIDICULOUS” (TO THAT PERSON, I now in the comfort of my office can say ” you’re right, it’s ridiculous I am standing here holding a railroad arm up so you can DRIVE UNDER IT!”
Standing there at that moment, on that day, getting a close up view of people…I realized that our businesses look very similar most of the time.
Some people get out the car and actively engage.
Some people act like they don’t know who you are.
Some people are emberassed, for what ever reason.
Some people are grateful.
Some people are just down right nasty.
And the bottom line is this:
SO WHAT.
Martin Luther King, Jr said this “Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would still plant a tree TODAY”
Are you sitting in your “vehicle” wondering what to do? Are you waiting for someone else to give you the all clear, go ahead? Are you getting more and more mad that nothing is moving?
MAYBE ITS TIME FOR YOU TO GET OUT OF THE CAR AND RAISE YOUR ARMS UP AND MAKE THE TRAFFIC START TO FLOW!!!
After about an hour, an MTA employee came over, turned a magic key and the arms went up! The INCESSANT ringing stopped…you know what i’m talking about at a RR crossing….DING, DING, DING, DING, DING, DING, DING…(you get the picture) and I suddenly realized that we had really only been able to let about 150 cars through, compared to the stream flowing at that point. BUT GUESS WHAT….WE GOT OUT OF THE CAR AND PEOPLE WERE MOVING. Not all the people, but people were moving and that is what needs to happen in your business…ACTIVITY. The activity of moving people through a funnel system so you can grow.
I really want you to take a moment to check your business. Are you moving people through a system? That is true activity in your business. Not the busy-ness of rearranging your office, attending a million meetings a month and never introducing your opportunity to anyone…IT HAS TO BE THE ACTIVITY THAT GROWS THE LIFESTYLE YOU DREAM OF.
To the women and the 2 true gentlemen who helped me hold up railroad arms last Friday…thank you. Thank you for lightening the load by being there, thank you for the life and business lesson you taught me.
To all of you…TWO things.
First, if you missed the Language of Recruiting webinar series that started last Saturday, DON’T LET ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY PASS YOU BY TO CHANGE THE FACE OF YOUR BUSINESS!! Go to cyacubicle.com and register NOW. If you go tonight, you can get all 3 of remaining webinars for 19.95 instead of 59.95! I guarantee you will be impacted, or guess what…I will personally give you back your money!
Second, GO HOLD UP A RAILROAD ARM AND CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS!! JUST KIDDING…those suckers are heavy!
Goodnight and I hope you find a blessing in your day…and share it!
Angela
Shareok…deep breath…NOW GO!
By · CommentsI had a few minutes with a dear friend today and as I wrapped up my day, I realized how important it is to take a deep breath every once in a while…and then be ready to GO! In my last post, we talked about how important it is to never give up and that no matter how far down we might go, we must keep going. Indeed, our success is one step past I-QUIT mark. But how do we keep going? How do we run more when we can’t walk another step? How do we work ONE more day, when we can’t bear the next ONE minute?How do we write ONE more page, when we can’t find the next ONE word? How do we plan financial freedom, when we can’t pay the ONE bill in front of us? HOW??!! Sometimes, the answer is in the next deep breath.
There is such a clarity that comes from taking that breath. I know this may sound silly. I KNOW what it feels like when the walls are coming in. TRUST ME…I know. 4 years ago, I lost just about everything. I lost my business, I lost my home, I was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and I was living in my car. The only thing I didn’t lose…my best friend. And it was at my lowest moment that that person told me to take a deep breath and find my path.
What are you dealing with right now that has you SO overwhelmed that you can’t even see straight? Has your business hit such a wall that all you can see is BRICKS? I started to feel that was last week…actuallly last weekend. Suddenly I was grasping at all kinds of quick fixes. I was spinning in a million different directions trying to find the next great button to push that would change it all….and guess what. NO BUTTON, NO QUICK FIX, NO SECRET. I went back to my most solid step and started walking again. I dealt with the one thing I could control…MY ACTIVITY. And the only thing you can control tomorrow is YOUR ACTIVITY. There is no quick way to finish the race. There is no way to type one word and have it complete a chapter. There is no way to have one person join your team, and make a million dollars. THERE IS YOU. AND YOU ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO DO IT! I promise you can do it…and I promise you will, IF YOU ARE WILLING TO STAY TRUE TO YOUR SYSTEM AND STAY ON THE COURSE.
Your business is counting on you doing the PERSISTENT AND CONSISTENT activity EVERY DAY…no matter the walls that creep in to disuade you. Doubt is the acknowledgement of I CANT. Every moment that you let the doubt slip in…is every moment you have lost…FOREVER.
TAKE A DEEP BREATH. NOT A VACATION, BUT RATHER A MOMENT TO GAIN CLARITY AND THEN…..
GOOOOOOO! GO CONFIDENTLY IN THE DIRECTION OF YOUR DREAMS!
If you should read this when you wake up, or as you start your day…come back to it during the day as that doubt creeps in. Then remind yourself, that you will not quit, you will not sit down, you will merely take a deep breath and go again! AND PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LEAVE A POST ABOUT HOW YOU THRIVE TODAY! ABOUT THE ONE THING, NO MATTER HOW SMALL OR HOW BIG…THAT MADE YOUR DAY TURN AROUND. GOOO. GOOOO FIND THAT ONE THING TODAY
have a great day.
go find a bit of wonder in it, and it will find wonderful things to give you!
see you in a few days.
ShareAre you at the WALL in your business?
By · CommentsLike most of the country….IT IS COLD HERE in northern California. In fact, it has been cold and gloomy for a few weeks now! So as I sit here in my home office looking at the wind blow and the skies STAY dark, I began thinking of how often our businesses can feel the same way. Oddly enough, we begin to feel like winter will NEVER END. Maybe this is as good as it gets and we will never see the sun! Similarly, it is easy to feel that way when we hit a wall in our businesses, maybe we will never break through. What if I pound and pound my head on this wall…AND NEVER SEE ANY LIGHT?
What I really want to know is this…do you feel as lonely as I have when I have hit that wall? Does it feel as cold and hard for you as it has for me? Are you as scared as I was because I NEEDED THIS TO WORK? Now here is a disclaimer: I DON’T WANT THIS CONVERSATION TO BE ONE SIDED, AND I DON’T WANT US TO STAY STUCK AT THE WALL!
The real point is this…I HAVE HIT SO MANY WALLS OVER THE YEARS THAT IT FELT LIKE I WAS TRYING TO CRUSH THRU THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA; BUT…I always broke through! Can you imagine? Feeling just like you might right now, lonely, desperate, confused, lost and on and on and on…and I made it through.
Was it my company? Was it my product? Was it my compensation plan? my upline, my downline, my home office…..NOPE! the secret…and I know everyone is either telling you THE SECRET or THEIR SECRET or THEIR PITCH…but here’s mine.
The secret is 3 things:
YOU, A SYSTEM AND THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. Three simple things, and yet very complicated.
As we journey down this year, LETS REALLY EXPLORE THOSE THREE THINGS. Let’s talk about how we can change the things we need to change, and not change the things that work AND RECOGNIZE THE DIFFERENCE!
But TODAY, as you sit looking out your window, and I sit looking out mine, what I really want you to hear is this voice:
YOU CAN MAKE IT. YOU CAN SURVIVE THIS. YOU CAN BREAK THROUGH IF YOU DONT GIVE UP. YOU CAN MAKE IT…I PROMISE YOU.
4 years ago, I looked out the window of my car on days like this. Why? because I had lost everything. I was living in my car and would look out on dreary days like this, wondering HOW WOULD I EVER MAKE IT?
I DID. I DID SURVIVE. I DID BREAK PAST IT. AND THE ONLY SECRET TO REMEMBER IS THAT YOU CAN TOO!
Please, no matter what anyone tells you or sells you, please know that YOU CAN MAKE IT AND I WILL DO WHATEVER I CAN TO HELP YOU.
Make it a wonderful day. FIND SOME BIT OF WONDER IN THIS DAY AND CHERISH IT.
See you tomorrow
